EP3064354B1 - Procédé et dispositif de production destinés a fabriquer des produits d'impression personnalisés - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de production destinés a fabriquer des produits d'impression personnalisés Download PDF

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EP3064354B1
EP3064354B1 EP16154167.7A EP16154167A EP3064354B1 EP 3064354 B1 EP3064354 B1 EP 3064354B1 EP 16154167 A EP16154167 A EP 16154167A EP 3064354 B1 EP3064354 B1 EP 3064354B1
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  • the invention relates to a method for producing personalized final printed products.
  • the invention also relates to a production apparatus for producing personalized final printed products.
  • Print on Demand refers to the needs-based production of printed products.
  • the production of the printed products is often done on digital printing machines, where the printed products may have custom features, such as e.g. personalized QR Code and URL (QR: Quick Response, URL: Unified Resource Locator).
  • QR Code and URL QR Code and URL
  • "Print on Demand” is used in the production of single copies, short runs of up to ten copies, for example, short runs of up to a hundred copies, or for medium-sized runs of up to several hundred thousand copies. For the production of very large print runs with, for example, several million copies, "Print on Demand” is generally still too expensive.
  • the US 2005/0044476 shows arranging custom content in a booklet.
  • a content identification is used to personalize the booklet and is read from a pre-printed booklet part and sent to a content controller.
  • the content controller uses the content identifier to obtain instructions from a data store which are used to create one or more freshly printed booklet parts.
  • the freshly printed booklet parts are combined with a pre-printed booklet to create a custom booklet.
  • the EP 1 911 583 shows the production of an individualized printed product.
  • a major product or partial product is produced in a high-performance printing process such as rotary printing and provided with an identification means.
  • the identification means carries the information for identifying the product.
  • the identification means enables the assignment of at least two further downstream individualization steps, such as the addition of information to the respective product.
  • An addressee-specific digital print product may include a blog supplement.
  • the identification means may comprise control information which directly controls the processing of the respective product by a processing device.
  • the DE102013102756 A1 describes a production planning and control system (PPS) for printing machines, having at least one acceptance interface for accepting print job data representing a print job, having at least one first planning device for planning a print job on non-printing form variable (NDFV) printing presses, preferably offset printing presses.
  • PPS production planning and control system
  • NDFV non-printing form variable
  • Gravure or flexo printing machines wherein the first scheduler is configured to compare the print job data with machine parameters of at least one NDFV print engine and generate print data for an NDFV print engine based on the print job data, and at least a first output interface to output the print job data Print data to an NDFV printing machine and to a further processed system downstream of the NDFV printing press.
  • the production planning and control system further comprises at least a second planning device for planning a print job on printing presses of the type DFV (printing form variable) printing machine, wherein the second planning device is adapted to compare the print job data with machine parameters of at least one DFV printing press and printing data for a DFV printing machine based on the print job data to produce, as well as at least a second output interface for outputting the print data to a communication printing press and a downstream of the communication printing machine further processing system.
  • DFV printing form variable
  • the WO 98/03347 shows the feeding of starting products and / or intermediates as product streams to processing steps and the removal of processed articles as streams of end products.
  • individual products or product groups are sequentially delivered in sequence.
  • processing steps a property of a processed product or a processed product group is changed.
  • Sequence transformations by product introduction, by product removal or by a combination thereof enable the sequence of the products or product groups to be changed.
  • the processing steps can be networked to any complexity, while still offering a high degree of flexibility. Sequence conversions as well as processing steps are controlled according to properties of the supplied products or product groups and / or according to a predetermined sequence to be created.
  • An object of the invention is to avoid at least certain problems of the prior art or to offer a solution for it.
  • the automated method of making personalized end-of-print products according to the invention comprises: creating end-product specifications each defining at least one personalized end-of-print product; creating sales orders based on end-product specifications, wherein a sales order defines at least one sequence of printed product collections; triggering the creation and creation of digital print jobs based on end product specifications and sales orders, wherein a digital print job defines at least one personalized print product; producing printed product collections according to the sales orders; producing personalized printed products according to digital print jobs; and producing personalized end-of-print products from the manufactured print product collections and personalized print products.
  • the personalized end-of-print product which can be efficiently and inexpensively produced by decoupling the creation of sales orders and the creation of digital print jobs in large numbers.
  • the production of personalized printed products is timed prior to the production of the printed product collections.
  • manufactured personalized print products are cached in a cache.
  • defect monitoring is performed in the manufacture of printed product collections and defective printed product collections are repaired or eliminated and subsequently produced.
  • an associated personalized print product is replicated to a repaired or post-printed print product collection.
  • a quality control is performed when producing a personalized finished product and an associated quality label is attached to the personalized finished product.
  • the personalized end-of-print product is assigned a control code that is attached to the personalized end-of-print product.
  • the creation of sales orders includes an optimization that optimizes an occupancy of feeders of a device for producing the personalized print finished products.
  • the creation of sales orders includes an optimization that optimizes at least one delivery route of the personalized print finished products.
  • At least one end product specification is provided in the form of an XML document.
  • At least one end product specification is provided in the form of a URL.
  • a personalized end-of-print product is made such that an addressee associated with the personalized end-of-print product is enabled to influence the creation of end-product specifications.
  • the addressee is allowed to influence the creation of his final product specifications.
  • a personalized final print product is made to include a jacket product encasing the printed product collection and the personalized printed product.
  • a personalized final print product is made such that the personalized print product is an envelope that encloses the printed product collection.
  • a personalized end-of-print product is made such that the personalized end-of-print product includes a printed product collection and a personalized printed product that are adhered together.
  • the printed product collection and the personalized printed product are in particular adhesively bonded together, wherein the bond is formed such that it can be solved without damaging the products.
  • personalized print products are arranged in packages, taking into account delivery routes.
  • the invention further relates to a production apparatus for producing personalized print finished products, comprising: a control center configured for the steps of: creating end product specifications each defining at least one personalized print end product, creating sales orders based on End product specifications, wherein a sales order defines at least one sequence of print product collections, and triggering the creation and creation of digital print jobs based on end product specifications and sales orders, wherein a digital print job defines at least one personalized print product; in which a conveyor having a plurality of investors, a digital printing machine and possibly a plug-in device are provided and the control center is further adapted to control the following manufacturing steps: Manufacture, using the conveyor and the multiple investors, of printed product collections according to the sales orders, manufacturing, using the Digital printing machine, from personalized printed products corresponding to the digital print jobs, and manufacturing, using the conveyor or inserter, personalized end-of-print products from the manufactured printed product collections and personalized printed products.
  • a control center configured for the steps of: creating end product specifications each defining at least one personalized print end product, creating sales orders based on
  • FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of the inventive method for the production of personalized Druckend locn.
  • step S1 a plurality of end product specifications are created.
  • the end product specifications are created, for example, by a computerized control system of a print finishing facility.
  • Each end product specification defines at least one addressee-specific personalized end product.
  • An end product specification may define a plurality of identical personalized print end products associated, for example, with a group of people.
  • a personalized finished product includes one or more printed products and at least one personalized printed product.
  • the one or more printed products may be in a printed product collection.
  • the personalized printed product is assigned to a person, respectively to an addressee or a group of persons.
  • Printed product collections can be produced from printed products such as magazines, magazines, advertising brochures, catalogs, flyers, cards as well as other flat products such as CDs, DVDs, samples, vouchers, coupon books and the like.
  • Printed products are available in a cost-effective form and preferably come from a high-performance printing process such as a rotary printing process.
  • the at least one personalized printed product can be produced on a digital printing press, a web press, a sheet-fed press, etc.
  • the end product specifications are created on the basis of orders to create personalized end-of-print products, with additional information such as information about the aforementioned printed products, master data, rules, addresses, demographic data, advertising jobs, geographic data, climatic data, data from news agencies, etc
  • the computerized control system includes routines, algorithms, databases, etc to properly evaluate selectable information.
  • an end-product specification may define a personalized end-of-print product for a recipient that includes a printed product collection that includes a fishing journal and a fishing regional supplement of a fishing club, and a personalized printed product in FIG Form of a personalized fishery advertising leaflet addressed to a recipient of a local fishing shop.
  • the personalized fishing promotional brochure may include, for example, a coupon personalized to the recipient.
  • Information about printed products includes, for example, information about the type, number, etc. of the printed products that should have a printed product collection of a personalized final printed product.
  • the information about printed products may include information as to which customer should receive which printed products.
  • the information about printed products may include information as to which printed products are intended for which delivery route.
  • Information about master data includes, for example, details of clients, order history, order statistics, etc., which must be taken into account when producing personalized end-of-print products.
  • Information about rules includes, for example, rules for the evaluation of master data that must be taken into account in the production of personalized end-of-print products.
  • the information about rules may include information about the association between printed products or printed product collections and personalized printed products.
  • the information about rules may include information as to what steps are provided for monitoring the production of personalized print products.
  • the information about rules may include information as to what steps should be taken in the event of errors, omissions, etc. in the production of personalized print finished products.
  • Address information includes, for example, country, region, town, district, neighborhood, street, surrounding shopping centers, surrounding POIs (Point of Interest), etc., from one or more recipients of personalized print products.
  • Information about demographic data includes, for example, statistical information on groups of people regarding age, education, residential structure (tenant, owner), population density, occupation, income, interests, wishes, pets, etc.
  • Information about advertising jobs includes, for example, images, texts, discounts, etc. of a product.
  • Information about advertising orders may include information on which area, for which customer layer, etc. an advertising order is intended.
  • Information about geographic data includes, for example, information about cities, villages, lakes, rivers, country boundaries, etc.
  • Information about climatic data includes, for example, past and / or forecast weather data. Information about climatic data can be linked to information about advertising orders.
  • Information about data from news agencies includes, for example, international news, national news, regional news, business news, sports results, etc.
  • Information about data from news agencies may be associated with information about advertising jobs.
  • the information mentioned can be linked to one another.
  • information about addresses may be linked to information about demographic data.
  • links There are a variety of links applicable.
  • the end product specifications may be in the form of structured data, such as in the form of one or more XML documents (XML: eXtended Markup Language).
  • the end product specifications may be in the form of access information, such as in the form of URL (URL: Unified Resource Locator) are created, the actual end product specification is stored under the URL address.
  • URL Unified Resource Locator
  • Multiple end product specifications may be associated with a single XML document.
  • step S2 one or more sales orders are created based on the end product specifications.
  • the sales orders define at least one sequence of final printed products to be manufactured and distributed.
  • the sequence of final printed products results in a number of final printed products which must be manufactured and sold.
  • the sales orders can correspond to the orders mentioned above for creating personalized print products.
  • the creation of the sales orders may include an optimization step to design a sequence in the production of personalized print products such that an apparatus for producing personalized print products is optimally utilized.
  • the creation of sales orders may include an optimization step to produce the personalized finished products according to a sequence or sequence that is aligned with desired delivery routes.
  • step S3 the creation of one or more digital print jobs is initiated based on the end product specifications and the created sales orders.
  • step S4 digital print jobs are created based on step S3.
  • a digital print job defines at least one personalized print product that is to be produced and attached to at least one print product collection in order to obtain a personalized print finished product.
  • step S5 a collection device is put into operation, wherein according to the sales orders several printed products are collected and used to produce printed product collections.
  • step S6 a digital printing machine is put into operation, wherein according to the digital print jobs several personalized printed products are produced.
  • step S7 personalized printed products and the associated printed product collections are assembled and used to produce personalized final printed products.
  • a shipping package may include one or more of the following features: a lace, a film enclosing the shipping package, a label, a cover sheet, a label.
  • step S9 the shipping pacts are loaded on delivery cars and the shipping parcels are transported to delivery points of delivery routes.
  • step S10 personalized printed end products are taken from the shipping packages and delivered to the respective recipient.
  • a recipient may include a person or a group of people.
  • step S11 the recipient of a personalized final printed product, in particular using optically readable data such as a QR code or URL attached to the personalized end product, accesses a computerized control system to influence the creation of end product specifications.
  • the URL is associated with an end product specification and is used in the manufacture of personalized end-of-print products. The recipient thereby has the possibility of influencing the latter until the production of the relevant personalized final printed product, for example in order to replace unwanted printed products of the personalized final printed product with newly desired printed products.
  • FIG. 2 shows schematically a production device 1 according to the invention for the production of personalized final printed products.
  • the production device 1 is associated with a control center 100, which is designed in particular as a computerized control center and is adapted to control the functions of the production apparatus 1.
  • a control center 100 which is designed in particular as a computerized control center and is adapted to control the functions of the production apparatus 1.
  • software programs are provided.
  • Control connections provided to transmit control signals to components of the production plant 1 and to control these components.
  • the production apparatus 1 comprises a conveyor 10.
  • the conveyor 10 is designed such that both individual printed products and printed product collections, personalized Druckend area, etc. can be promoted.
  • the conveyor 10 may be clocked and designed for high throughput, such as tens of thousands per hour.
  • the feeders 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 are arranged to supply printed products to the conveyor 10.
  • the multiple feeders 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 are each at least similar or identical equipped.
  • FIG. 2 For the investor with reference numeral 21 features are shown, which are described below and are provided for the other investors 22, 23, 24, 25 similar or identical.
  • a stack 211 is provided which has stacked printed products. As in FIG. 2 is shown schematically by dashed lines, the stack 211 is refilled in the course of the production of personalized Druckend employmentn, each with the same printed products or replaced by other printed products. As shown for the investor with reference numeral 21, a printed product 212 is supplied from the stack 211 of the conveyor 10.
  • the print product collections may optionally be provided with a personalized print product.
  • the production is based on final print product specifications.
  • the manufacture is controlled by the control center 100.
  • a digital printing machine 30 is provided for the production of personalized printed products.
  • the digital printing machine 30 has a stack of unprinted printed products 31.
  • the digital press 30 is configured to print on a blank print product 31 to produce a personalized print product 32.
  • the production is based on final print product specifications.
  • the manufacture is controlled by the control center 100.
  • placeholders that define available space on the unprinted print product 31 are printed with personalized content.
  • the unprinted printed product 31 may have, for example, three placeholders.
  • a first placeholder is printed with information concerning a product A
  • a second placeholder becomes with information concerning a product B printed
  • a third placeholder is printed with information regarding a product C.
  • the first placeholder is printed with information regarding a product D
  • the second placeholder is printed with information concerning the product B
  • the third placeholder is printed with information concerning the product A.
  • the production of personalized print products 32 is based on final print product specifications. The production is controlled by the control center.
  • the personalized print product 32 may be provided with a control code that is created based on the print end product specification.
  • the control code can be used to carry out a control over the actual printed end products during later processing steps.
  • the control code may include information about the final printed product, such as from which printed products the particular printed product collection is assembled and how the personalized final printed product is designed.
  • the control code makes it possible to keep track of whether the personalized finished product has been produced correctly, whether it has been produced in the right sequence, whether it is in the right package for delivery, etc. This results in reliable information about the produced personalized print products.
  • the personalized print product 32 may be delivered to the conveyor 10 immediately after printing and added to a printed product collection to form a personalized final print product.
  • the personalized print product 32 may be cached in a buffer 33. By buffering speed fluctuations of the digital printing machine 30 and the conveyor 10 can be decoupled from each other.
  • personalized printed products 32 can be fed in batches to a feeder 25, which is set up to remove a personalized printed product 213 from the stack and feed it to the conveyor 10.
  • the conveyor may have a flow path, on which the feeders 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 are arranged and a return path, on which the products in question are conveyed in the opposite direction to the flow path.
  • This makes it possible to provide an optional return 40 in order to re-supply and complete the relevant product in the event of a fault.
  • FIG. 2 is highlighted on the return line a correctly assembled Druckendeck 11. This is provided for the direct forwarding to the further processing devices 50, 60 described below.
  • FIG. 2 is highlighted on the return line a faulty compiled Druckendeck 12. This is provided for forwarding to the return 40 to make a repair.
  • a defective product is simply removed, for example, by removal or dropping at a certain point of the conveyor 10th
  • the personalized printed product 32 may relate to a personalized envelope to which an inserter 60 is fed to insert printed products into the personalized envelope and form a personalized final printed product.
  • FIG. 2 schematically illustrated, connect to the further processing devices 50, 60 one or more packaging devices 71, 72 to summarize the personalized printed products in packages 81, 82, ..., 8n and supply the delivery.
  • the described production of personalized printed products enables a cost-effective production of large print runs with personalized end products.
  • the personalized end-of-print products can be tuned very precisely to the recipient of the personalized end-of-print product. For example, a receiver who likes to play golf when the weather is nice and likes to go fishing in bad weather, the daily newspaper with the for the month in question about fishing and playing golf.
  • the personalized end-of-print product can either be updated with up-to-date information about the gulf by daily updating of a personalized printed product or provided with up-to-date information about the fishing.

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  1. Procédé automatique destiné à la fabrication de produits finis imprimés personnalisés lesquels présentent respectivement une collection de produits imprimés et au moins un produit imprimé personnalisé, comprenant:
    la création (S1) de spécifications de produit fini, qui définissent respectivement au moins un produit fini imprimé personnalisé,
    la création (S2) de commandes de distribution en se basant sur des spécifications de produit fini, dans lequel une commande de distribution définit au moins une séquence de collections de produits imprimés,
    le déclenchement (S3) de la création et la création (S4) de commandes d'impressions numériques en se basant sur des spécifications de produit fini et des commandes de distribution, dans lequel une commande d'impression numérique définit au moins un produit imprimé personnalisé,
    la fabrication (S5) de collections de produits imprimés correspondant aux commandes de distribution,
    la fabrication (S6) de produits imprimés personnalisés correspondant aux commandes d'impression numérique, et
    la fabrication (S7) de produits finis imprimés personnalisés à partir des collections de produits imprimés et des produits imprimés personnalisés fabriqués.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la fabrication de produits imprimés personnalisés est déclenchée temporellement avant la fabrication des collections de produits imprimés.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel des produits imprimés personnalisés fabriqués sont conservés en tampon dans une mémoire tampon.
  4. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, dans lequel lors de la fabrication de collections de produits imprimés, une surveillance des erreurs est effectuée et les collections de produits imprimés défectueuses sont réparées ou retirées et produites ultérieurement.
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 4, dans lequel un produit imprimé personnalisé faisant partie d'une collection de produits imprimés réparée ou produite ultérieurement est produit ultérieurement.
  6. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, dans lequel lors de la fabrication d'un produit fini imprimé personnalisé, un contrôle qualité est effectué et un marquage de qualité correspondant est appliqué sur le produit fini imprimé personnalisé.
  7. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, dans lequel un code de contrôle est attribué au produit fini imprimé personnalisé, lequel est appliqué sur le produit fini imprimé personnalisé.
  8. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, dans lequel la création de commandes de distribution comprend une optimisation qui optimise une occupation de dispositifs d'acheminement d'un dispositif pour fabriquer les produits finis imprimés personnalisés.
  9. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 8, dans lequel la création de commandes de distribution comprend une optimisation qui optimise au moins un trajet de livraison des produits finis imprimés personnalisés.
  10. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 9, dans lequel au moins une spécification de produit fini sous la forme d'un document XML est prévue.
  11. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 10, dans lequel au moins une spécification de produit fini sous la forme d'une URL est prévue.
  12. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 11, dans lequel un produit fini imprimé personnalisé est ainsi fabriqué qu'il permet à un destinataire du produit fini imprimé personnalisé d'influencer la création d'une spécification de produit fini.
  13. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 12, dans lequel un produit fini imprimé personnalisé est ainsi fabriqué que celui-ci comprend un produit d'enveloppement qui enveloppe la collection de produits imprimés et le produit imprimé personnalisé.
  14. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 13, dans lequel un produit fini imprimé personnalisé est ainsi fabriqué que le produit imprimé personnalisé est une enveloppe qui entoure la collection de produits imprimés.
  15. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 14, dans lequel un produit fini imprimé personnalisé est ainsi fabriqué que le produit fini imprimé personnalisé présente une collection de produits imprimés et un produit imprimé personnalisé qui sont collés l'un à l'autre, dans lequel le collage peut être de préférence séparé sans endommager les produits.
  16. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 15, dans lequel des produits finis imprimés personnalisés sont disposés en paquets en tenant compte des trajets de livraison.
  17. Dispositif de production pour fabriquer des produits finis imprimés personnalisés, comprenant:
    une centrale de commande (100) qui est conçue pour les étapes suivantes:
    la création (S1) de spécifications de produit fini, qui définissent respectivement au moins un produit fini imprimé personnalisé,
    la création (S2) de commandes de distribution en se basant sur des spécifications de produit fini, dans lequel une commande de distribution définit au moins une séquence de collections de produits imprimés, et
    le déclenchement (S3) de la création et la création (S4) de commandes d'impressions numériques en se basant sur des spécifications de produit fini et des commandes de distribution, dans lequel une commande d'impression numérique définit au moins un produit imprimé personnalisé ;
    dans lequel un dispositif de transport (10) comprenant plusieurs placeurs (21, 22, 23, 24, 25), une machine d'impression numérique (30) et le cas échéant un dispositif enfichable (60) sont prévus et la centrale de commande (100) est en outre conçue pour la commande des étapes de fabrication suivantes :
    la fabrication (S5), en utilisant le dispositif de transport (10) et les plusieurs placeurs (21, 22, 23, 24, 25), de collections de produits imprimés correspondant aux commandes de distribution,
    la fabrication (S6) en utilisant la machine d'impression numérique (30), de produits imprimés personnalisés correspondant aux commandes d'impression numérique, et
    la fabrication (S7) en utilisant le dispositif de transport (10) et le dispositif enfichable (60), de produits finis imprimés personnalisés à partir des collections de produits imprimés et des produits imprimés personnalisés fabriqués.
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